Swanton High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Swanton, OH)

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LANGUAGES M. L. HALL When the Swanton High School was first established. Latin was part of the schoofs curriculum. Une of the first foreign language teachers was fi. U. Castle. ln 1912 Margaret Biery' introduced a four year course of Latin. The first year was the study of grammar: second year. Caesarg third year. llicerog fourth year. Yirgil. Hope Curtis, another foreign language teacher. was the first alumna of this high school to return as one of its faculty. Following Miss Curtis, Miss Paige and Merah Gamble were instructors. ln l92l Mable Urennan changed the schtdule hy' teaching two years of French and two years of Latin. During the next years, Maretta jordan. Marguerite Williams. Mary iiaris and llelen Hennund were other teachers ot language. 4 llvelyn llahn. now Mrs. Edmund l'illiod. htld the magistrais rule for a period of six years. Her successor was Dorothy Harris Logan. now one of Holland High 5l'll0Ul1S faculty. Mary Louise Hall became a mcmlver of the faculty in I9-l-fl. She presides over a class of thirty freshmen and sixteen sophomores. 'fhe prestnt curriculum offers only' two years of Lating first year is grammar and second year. Caesar. The future aim of the de martment is to add S anish to the schoofs curriculum. 1'i 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 the students of Latin have completed several projects pertalnlng to the suhject. AIIIOIIU those were modcline' statues. coustructinf' notehooks and rosters of the ?-, rf 1 P v 1 1 Roman Gods and Uoddesses and studyinv models of weaions used llllfllll' this 1 1b C 4 r-l1 1 Q 1 ra period. the purpose of the projects IS to introduce the pupils to the religion and home life of the Romans. HU

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MATHEMATICS MABEI. MILNES To most students. especially the girls. mathematics is one of the most difficult subjects they encounter while in high school. Any period of the day you can walk though the study hall and see a freshman. sophomore. junior or senior. struggling over the dayis math assignment. Although it undoubtedly tests our depositions more than any other subject, we could not get along without dear old math. and every student will remember the many valuable lessons learned in the math- ematics room. At present. the students are privileged to have Mable Milnes as their math teacher. We have yet to meet a student who had anything but good to say for thr- teacher who in our minds is simply a genius in math. tl wonder if that's what college does. or if she was just a born mathematician?j This year the math department offers four different types of mathematics: namely. general math. algebra. geometry and advanced math lwhich consists of one semester advanced algebra. and one semester of triginometrypt All of the freshmen are required to take either general math which is a review of all the math they have studied since the 6th grades, plus a few equations. or algebra: therefore. Miss Milnes has her hands full with approximately one hundred gen- eral math and algebra I students. There are twenty-seven in the geometry class. who daily struggle over the area of flat surfaces and try to prove that the equations they learned in algebra l are correct. The smallest class of all is the advanced math class. which consists of fourteen industrious students who labor over prob- lems which they will later encounter in their freshman year at college. In looking back through the preceding years. we find the names of many other teachers who have helped educate students into the mystery of mathematics: f.. U. liastle. L. W. Bates. Allan Trumbull, Mable Drcnnan. lialph Lindsay. W. A. Salter. Hart Swindler. Ralph Geer. Dale Vaughn. W. H. Shaver and Alice Cun- ningham. To all the teachers who have endeavored to teach with unfailing patience the intracacies of math. we. as students of Swanton High School. offer a salute. fllj

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SCIENCE A. CURTIS With the advent of World War II, the need for new and better weapons. medicines and transportation brought about a new flood of experimentation. This need was fulfilled and out of this came more wonderful discoveries than had ever been imagined. Science and scientists have truly proved their worth. Swanton High School offers a complete course in science. There is general science, which includes a smattering of everything from nature study to machin- ery. Next comes biology. the study of life, dealing with the lives of plants and animals. These two courses are under the instruction of Miss Curtis. For more advanced science we have Mr. Daniels teaching chemistry, the study of the ele- ments: and physics, the study of natural laws in their relation to mechanics. In 1900. the first year for science to be taught in S. H. S., physics was chosen. Catherine Hartley was instructor of this class which used textbooks, but they had to struggle along with no experimenting. because there was no equipment for such things. Later, botany was added to the curriculum and several graduates returned to learn of the flowers and weeds. Several students of forty years ago say they vividly remember physics class with genial Mr. Bates as the teacher demonstrat- ing the static elecricity machine and giving them thrills by having them clasp hands and sending a circuit of electricity through the chain. Mr. Bates called ins students Mr. and Miss. One favorite method of confusion was, Miss Smith, you must be exact and definite in science. You donit seem to be able to define the simplest, most commonfplace things. What is a chair? Next to be introduced was general science, which came about 1917. As time went by biology and chemistry came into demand and were added. Mr. L. A. W alker was our first biology teacher in 1923. At this time Mr. Vanorsdall was teacher of the other sciences. Following him up to the present time are Mr. Leroy demon- Scott, Mr. Earle Davidson. Mr. Karl Zartman, Mr. Howard ltogge. Mr. Daniels and Miss Curtis. The first room set aside for the teaching of science was room 333 on the g . upper floor of the old building. The teacher did the experimenting as siralions. Extra equipment was kept in the cloak room. In 1927 room 107 was equipped for a biology laboratory and room 11 for chemistry and physics. Since that time each student performs and tabulates the'results of his own experiments. flfij